{"id":1039,"date":"2011-09-09T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2011-09-09T15:52:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:52:01","slug":"defeat-is-an-orphan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"DEFEAT IS AN ORPHAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an old saying that \u201cvictory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan.\u201d\u00a0 JFK, among others, used that quotation.\u00a0 The Obama administration loaned $525 million to Solyndra, then bragged about this as the first show piece in a wave of new jobs created by investing in green energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/the-center-for-public-integrity\/solyndra-investigation-ex_b_955752.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl3%7Csec3_lnk3%7C94164\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/the-center-for-public-integrity\/solyndra-investigation-ex_b_955752.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl3%7Csec3_lnk3%7C94164<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It, like most other Obama ideas, was a major bust.\u00a0 Solyndra has filed for bankruptcy and the FBI is investigating whether or not this was just stupidity or was it fraud.\u00a0 At a minimum, it was an incredibly bad investment.\u00a0 Obama personally sat in on meeting with Solyndra executives and as recently as May of 2010,\u00a0visited Solyndra, along with Arnold Schwarzenegger, to brag about all those green energy jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KYiJ-_K9NCo\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KYiJ-_K9NCo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now the White House is trying to back away big time and this scandal is blowing sky high.\u00a0 It is so bad that Henry Waxman and Diana DeGette took the time to write a letter to House Committee investigating this to explain why\u00a0this is not there fault because\u00a0they were lied to by Solyndra executives.\u00a0 They threw the executives at Solyndra under teh bus faster than Obama threw his white grandmother.\u00a0 \u00a0When people like Waxman and DeGette start running away from things it is best to expect a really big explosion.<\/p>\n<p>This stinks to high heaven and the White House is probably torn between covering up Fast and Furious or covering up Solyndragate.<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an old saying that \u201cvictory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan.\u201d\u00a0 JFK, among others, used that quotation.\u00a0 The Obama administration loaned $525 million to Solyndra, then bragged about this as the first show piece in &hellip; 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